Honoring Leaders In Flushing

By QNS Editorial Posted on March 6, 2014

Rep. Grace Meng honored several African-American leaders from Queens during her Black History Month ceremony last Monday, Feb. 24, at the Latimer Gardens Community Center in Flushing. The congresswoman presented awards to 10 individuals for their various contributions to the community. Following the award presentation, the group watched the movie Freedom Riders, a documentary on the 1961 effort by black and white Americans to end segregation and Jim Crow laws in southern states. Pictured with Meng, the honorees included Sharon Banks, manager of the Pomonok/Electchester Queens Library branch; Dr. Evelyn Julmisse, chair of Queens College’s Africana Studies Department; Brandi Covington, Latimer Gardens Community Center program director; Marie Adam-Ovide, Community Board 8 district manager; Marvin Jeffcoat of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Kenneth Cohen II and Courtney Cohen of the NAACP; Mark Levy, a civil rights activist at Queens College during the 1960s; Deputy Queens Borough President Leroy Comrie and Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry.

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